In order to promote international co-operation and to achieve international peace and security:
By the acceptance of obligations not to resort to war;
By the prescription of open, just and honourable relations between nations;
By the firm establishment of the understandings of international law as the actual rule of conduct among Governments; and
By the maintenance of justice and a scrupulous respect for all treaty obligations in the dealings of organised peoples with one another:

Agree to the Covenant of the League of Nations

STATES MEMBERS

Any fully self-governing State, Dominion or Colony may become a Member of the League on a two-thirds vote of the Assembly.

*Withdrew from the League on June 12th, 1928.
**Withdrew from the League on January 1st, 1927.

The League of Nations: A Pictorial Summary, Geneva: League of Nations, c. 1920. (Courtesy of the Woodrow Wilson House)

Illustration 2 is a map and a list of League of Nations Members.

Questions for Illustration 2

1. Under what category is the United States listed in
this document?

2. Read the covenant that appears at the top of the
page. Which of the principles would most likely have bothered an opponent of the League like Senator Borah? Why?

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